Senator M. Michael Rounds wants the ag-industrial complex to determine whether or not the land they want to tile, plow, and monetize qualifies as wetlands,…
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University of Iowa hydroscientist and engineer Chris Jones says Iowa farmers enjoy a lot of mythmaking that smells more like corporate image-management than reflection of…
I learned something new today: sunflowers can cause your tractor to catch fire! What started as a day of planting into sunflower stubble quickly turned…
As Republicans sue to stop the Biden Administration from handing out student loan relief, rural Republicans are staying curiously quiet about the Biden Administration’s handing…
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis reports that the price of farmland in South Dakota is up 11.5% from last year—and that’s adjusted for inflation.…
I noted earlier this month that South Dakota is not capitalizing on organic agriculture as eagerly as other states. Perhaps President Biden can help: Details…
South Dakota News Watch‘s new report on fraud in organic farming includes some figures on how South Dakota seems not to be capitalizing on the…
During the latest leg of her national book tour last week, Kristi Noem lied on Newsmax about South Dakota’s acceptance of expanded federal unemployment benefits…
In another dose of denial about agriculture’s harmful impacts on the environment, the Brown County Commission deflects concerns raised by a constituent about agriculture polluting…
Democratic Senate candidate Brian Bengs and I may share an occasional wavelength. Shortly after my reminder yesterday that concentration in the chicken industry is as…